Al-Sunan ibn Majah : Arabic 4 Vols

About Ibn Majah :

Abu ‘Abdullah, Muhammad bin Yazid al-Qizwini Ar-Rib'i, better known simply as Ibn Majah (209 - 273 H), radi Allahu ta'ala anhu, studied with many grandmasters of hadith, many people narrated hadith from him. He was a hafidh of the Qur'an and one of the eminent scholars of Hadith. Ibn Majah was born in the city of Qazvin (Qazwin), in the northern Persian province of Dailam. After gaining hadith from the many great scholars of his city, he travelled to seek further knowledge at the young age of 21.


Imam ibn Majah is said to have visited Basrah, Kufah, Baghdad, the Hijaz, Makkah, Syria and Egypt to hear and gather ahadith. Amongst his teachers were Jabbara ibn al Mughlis, Ibrahim ibn al-Munzar, Hisham ibn Umar and Abu Bakr ibn Shaibah.


On his status : Ibn Khallikan writes that Imam ibn Majah held the position of an Imam in the subject of hadith. Abu al-Ali Khalili says he was a great scholar of Qur’anic exegesis, ahadith and history. Imam adh Dhahabi stated that he was a hafidh and warehouse of Prophetic knowledge. Imam Ibn Majah departed from this world during the blessed month of Ramadan 273 A.H. in Qazvin, the city of his birth.


Imam ibn Majah is known to have authored 3 books, these were :


---Sunan ibn Majah,
---At-Tafsir,
---At-Tarikh.

 

 

 

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